Adjustable skirt-fastening.



PATENTED AUG. 25, 1903.

' 0. H. & G. B. MoWILLIAMS.

ADJUSTABLE SKIRT FASTENING. A PPLIOATIOH FILED DEG. 1. 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MOWILLIAMS AND GEORGE B. MOWILLIAMS, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

ADJUSTABLE SKIRT-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 737,004, dated August 25, 1903.

Application filed December 1, 1902. Serial No. 133,365. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES H. MCWIL- LIAMS and GEORGE B. MOWILLIAMS, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Waterloo, Blackhawk county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Skirt Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in adjustable skirt-fastenings; and the object of our improvements is to provide a convenient method. of double adjustment of such fastenings.

Our improved adjustable fastening isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a View of an underskirt equipped with our improved fastening, and Fig. 2 is an illustration of a lady adjusting the fastening on an underskirt to fither own person.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout both views.

Each end of the waistband on the skirt a is supplied with a plurality of eyelets d, the extreme ends of said band being furnished with hooks e. Drop-pieces b and c are located on either side of the placket and are furnished with bands whose bodies near their outer ends are supplied with the eyelets g and their outer extremities with the hooks f. The inner extremity of the band on the droppiece b has a hook 72, while the inner end of the band on the drop piece c has several eyelets '0.

To efiect a permanent adjustment of the skirt to the person, the hooks f are secured in the proper eyelets d and the hooks e are slipped into the desiredeyelets g. This adjustment having once been made need not be changed, as a second adjustment may be easily efiected at any time by merely shifting the hook 7?. to either of the eyelets k, as may be found temporarily convenient to the wearer.. The particular advantage attributed to this method of fastening is this, that by means of tho first adjustment the skirt may be readily fitted to any size of waist, and

when so fitted any further slight tightening or loosening of the band renders only the simple second adjustment necessary. The wearer therefore .is not subjected to the annoyance of handling several hooks and eyes at each wearing, needing but to shift hook it to an eyelet 70. Another important point of advantage is this, that when the skirt is first adjusted-as, for instance, to an extremely small waistthe outer ends of the drop-pieces do not form loose flaps to destroy the beauty of the waist-line, but are held close upon the skirt-band by the hooks f.

Having described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A waist-closure consisting ofa skirt havin g drop-pieces at opposite sides of its placketopening, the Waistband having hooks at its extremities and severaleyelets adjacent said hooks, the drop-pieces having hooks at their outer extremities and several eyelets adjacent, the hook on a drop-piece engaging an eyelet in the .band when the hook on the latter engages an eyelet in the former; and an adjustable and detachable connection between the drop-pieces.

2. A waist-closure consisting of a skirt having drop-pieces at opposite sides of its placketopening, the waistband having hooks at its extremities and several eyelets adjacentsaid hooks, the drop-pieces having hooks at their outer extremities and several eyelets adjacent, the hook on a drop-piece engaging an eyelet in the band when the hook on the latter engages an eyelet in the former; ahorizontal series of eyelets near the inner end of one drop-piece, and a hook at the inner extremity of the other drop-piece.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 26th day of November, 1902.

CHARLES H. MOWILLIAMS. GEORGE E. MOWILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

M. E. KENNEDY, -J. F. ALBRECHT. 

